With financial markets in chaos, hedge-fund investors need to know how to protect their interests. This webinar will help investors understand:

--What are managers doing to protect their/their vehicles’ interests?

--How can investors maintain productive working relationships with managers while protecting their own interests?

-- How can investors find each other and work together?

-- What questions should investors be asking managers, and what kinds of answers should they expect?

--What steps can investors take to avoid the negative effects of gates and side pockets?How should due diligence be changed?

--What remedies do investors have for manager misconduct in a crisis?

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On December 9, partner Asaf Reindel will speak at an event hosted by the Israeli Hedge Fund Association and the law firm of Herzog Fox & Neeman titled Risk Mitigation: A Cyber Event Simulation for Executives and Preparation for the Cessation of LIBOR. More

On November 21, partner Mala Ahuja Harker will speak at Centerforce Conferences' Women in Legal & Corporate Leadership Summit on a panel titled "Working Through Generational Diversity Among Leaders & Emerging Leaders." More

On November 20, 2019, Friedman Kaplan and Asaf Reindel, along with Marketing Innovation Worldwide (MIW), will co-host the US-ISRAEL Technology Event, a networking event where Israeli startups can present their companies and connect with investors, service providers, and other decision makers. More

On October 23, 2019, partner Anne Beaumont spoke at Quorum 15's New York Fixed Income meeting on the topic of LIBOR transition. More

On October 29, 2019, partner Anne Beaumont spoke at the Portfolio Valuation Summit, hosted by Stout Risius Ross. Ms. Beaumont spoke on a panel titled "Issues in Litigation and Liquidity," and was joined by co-panelists Joel E. Cohen and Justin Burchett of Stout, John Pintarelli of Morrison & Foerster, and John Pendleton of DLA Piper. More

On July 8, FK partner Scott Berman will speak at the Continuing Legal Education Institute's seminar Winning Cases in Federal Court. The event, which is co-sponsored by NYCLA’s Federal Courts Committee and Chaired by Joel M. Silverstein of Stern & Kilcullen, LLC, the Honorable Pamela K. Chen of the Eastern District of New York, and the Hon. Lois Bloom, Magistrate Judge, of the Eastern District of New York, will cover everything attorneys need to know to practice in federal court. More

FK partner Mary Mulligan will speak on a panel at this year's Fraud Lawyers Association International Conference, to be held on June 21, 2019 in London.   More

On April 29, 2019, Friedman Kaplan litigation partner Anne Beaumont moderated a panel at the GAIM Ops Cayman  conference titled "You Will Be Hacked: Practical Lessons in Preparing for and Responding to Cyber Incidents."  More

On April 8, partner Ricardo Solano, Jr. participated in a panel discussion on criminal justice reform in the Corzine administration at the Jon Corzine Archive Roundtable, held at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. More

On Tuesday, Feb. 5, Eric Seiler sat on a panel hosted by Reorg entitled CDS, Engineered Defaults and Exotic Transactions. More

FK partner Scott Berman spoke at the 2019 Carribean Insolvency Symposium, held by the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association between January 7-9 at The Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort & Spa in the Cayman Islands. Mr. Berman sat on a panel entitled,"Insolvency Remedies for Offshore Fraud: Closing the Net on the Bad Guys." More

On November 27, FK partners Asaf Reindel and Scott Berman spoke at a seminar co-hosted by Friedman Kaplan and Barnea, a leading Israeli law firm, entitled A Legal Primer for U.S. Hedge Fund Investing. Mr. Reindel's talk focused on insider trading and hedge fund research in the U.S., and Mr. Berman's on how to avoid becoming a party in a hedge fund litigation. More

On July 12 and 19, FK partner Scott Berman spoke at the Continuing Legal Education Institute's seminar Winning Cases in Federal Court. The event, which was co-sponsored by NYCLA’s Federal Courts Committee and Chaired by Joel M. Silverstein of Stern & Kilcullen, LLC and The Honorable Sidney Stein of the Southern District of New York,  covered everything attorneys need to know to practice in federal court. More

On November 28, 2017, Friedman Kaplan litigation partner Robert Lack spoke at the Baruch College and NASBA Center for the Public Trust's 12th Annual Audit Conference. Mr. Lack's session, New Litigation and Regulatory Risks, took place from 3:25-4:45 PM. More

On November 16, FK partner Ricardo Solano, Jr. spoke at the New Jersey Association for Justice's Meadowlands Seminar 2017, on a panel entitled "Ethics & Professionalism in Criminal Law." More

Ricardo Solano presented on a panel addressing the management of parallel and civil proceedings at the 2017 Hispanic Bar Association Annual Convention, held from September 6-9 in Kansas City, MO. More

On August 14, Ricardo Solano, Jr. presented a Continuing Legal Education program for Lawline, an online CLE provider, on the topic of trying commercial matters in NJ. More

On July 11 and July 18th, Friedman Kaplan Partner Scott Berman spoke at the New York County Lawyers Association Continuing Legal Education Institute's Winning Cases in Federal Court program. More

On April 28, Friedman Kaplan partner Ricardo Solano Jr. spoke at the NJAJ Educational Foundation's Boardwalk Seminar 2017. His session, classified under Ethics & Professionalism in the Technology Age, was entitled "Criminal Law: Bridgegate, Bail Reform and Cutting-Edge Topics for the Criminal Practitioner". More

On December 14, Friedman Kaplan partner Ricardo Solano Jr. spoke on a panel entitled "Health Care & RICO:  Risks Facing Providers, Manufacturers & Payors" at a webinar hosted by the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law, Competition Torts. More

Mary Mulligan spoke about recent trends in white collar prosecution defense and government investigations at the Ontario Bar Association conference on White Collar Defense and Government Investigation on November 21 in Toronto. More

On October 5, Hallie Levin participated in the Office of the Appellate Defender's 23rd Annual First Monday in October Mock Supreme Court Argument & Gala as a Justice of the Mock Supreme Court. The Court considered a hypothetical case based on the recent Apple/FBI litigation over whether the government can compel Apple to unlock iPhones seized pursuant to valid search warrants, but which are securely password-protected. The Hon. Jonathan Lippman of Latham & Watkins acted as Chief Justice. More

On Wednesday, July 13th, Nishith Desai Associates, in coordination with Friedman Kaplan, made a presentation at Friedman Kaplan's offices to a select group of clients on investing in India. More

Mary Mulligan joined the faculty of the Practising Law Institute (PLI) course Doing Business in and with Emerging Markets 2016, held on July 7 at PLI's offices in New York. The course provided a comprehensive overview of the most pressing legal issues involved in international deal making in and with emerging markets.  More

Mary Mulligan moderated a panel entitled "Data Analytics: Regulators Use Them. Should You?" at The National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)'s Annual Conference held from June 26-29 in San Francisco, CA.  More

Friedman Kaplan partner Ricardo Solano, Jr. spoke at this year's Boardwalk Seminar, held by the NJ Association for Justice at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, NJ from April 6-8. Mr. Solano's talk took place on Thursday, April 7 from 9:30-10:45 AM. His remarks pertained to the use of electronic evidence in criminal cases. CLE credit was given to attendees. More

Friedman Kaplan partner Eric Corngold spoke at the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s 2016 Spring Meeting held in Montreal, Quebec, from April 7 - 9, 2016. Mr. Corngold’s panel, “NexGen White-Collar: Where are the Law, Business and Ethics Headed?” was moderated by Jonny Frank of StoneTurn Group, formerly of the U.S. Department of Justice, and his co-panelists included Janice Innis-Thompson, Senior Managing Director and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer of TIAA, Laura McLaren, Senior Counsel and Director of Global Anti-Corruption at BMO Financial Group, Sarah Coyne, counsel in the Litigation Department and White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group of Debevoise and Plimpton LLP,  and Jeffrey A. Brown, a Partner in the Litigation, White Collar, and Internal Investigations and Corporate Compliance practices of Dechert LLP. The session took place on April 7 from 8:30-10:00 AM at the Hotel Bonaventure.  Attendees were eligible for CLE credit. More

Friedman Kaplan partner Mary Mulligan spoke at the New York University School of Law Sports Law Association's 5th Annual Sports Law Colloquium on March 25, 2016. Ms. Mulligan’s panel was entitled “Corruption in Sports: The FIFA Scandal,” and was moderated by Professor Jennifer Arlen of the NYU School of Law. Ms. Mulligan’s co-panelists included Samir Gandhi of Sidley Austin LLP, Rebecca Ruiz of the New York Times, and Serina Vash of the NYU School of Law. The panel took place from 11:30am - 12:45pm in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room of Furman Hall, located at 245 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012. The event was open to practicing attorneys for CLE credit and to current NYU Law students.  More

On November 10, 2015, Friedman Kaplan partner Ricardo Solano Jr. gave a lecture at the Rutgers Law School Center for Law and Justice entitled Ethical Issues in Criminal Cases. CLE credit was given to attendees (NJ: 2.4 (incl. 2.4 ethics); NY: 2.0 (incl. 2.0 ethics); PA: 2.0 (incl. 2.0 ethics), Criminal Law Ethics). More

On November 9, 2015, Friedman Kaplan partner Scott Berman spoke at Financial Research Associates’ General Counsels Forum on Internal Investigations & Compliance at the Princeton Club in New York. Mr. Berman’s talk, which he delivered in conjunction with Kristen O’Conner, Employment Counsel at Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., was entitled “Document Preservation and the Consequences of Neglect.” More